TalkTakesTime
as shallow as a plate of cereal
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Timezone: GMT+12
Language: English
Areas of Expertise: Pokemon Showdown!, Other Metagames
Background: I first came to Smogon back in early 2012 looking at analyses, even though I didn't play any Pokemon. I then heard about PS! somewhere, and decided to go check it out for myself. I lurked and laddered (mainly UU) for a couple of months before I made friends with a certain Canadian moogle, who dragged me to his server, where I stayed for several months, forsaking main. I rose through the ranks pretty quickly there, and taught myself JavaScript in July 2013 so I could contribute some code to the server.
While on TBT, I befriended several other mods from the Smogon server and allowed myself to be convinced to head back there, where I quickly got voice thanks to some Spanish admin (leader at the time iirc). I then got drivers 4 weeks later, and mods in another 3 weeks, giving me the record for fastest promotion from nothing to mod (at the time anyway; I'm not sure if 7 weeks has been broken or not. I think Royalty might have beaten me? not sure though). I then began a project that was to become the first iteration of the /dexsearch command, initially adding it to some side servers before working up the courage to pull request it to main. Despite its terrible algorithm and overall bad code, Zarel accepted it and some of my code was on main.
From there I coded a few more things and modded PS for a while, before getting properly involved in coding for PS again in January this year. Other than coding I also tested a bunch of fixes, so my contributions ended up getting me added to the PS credits. These days I mostly code OMs and the occasional feature or bugfix. I'm working on the last stages of offline messaging currently, as well as adding features to my PS bot (called, imaginatively, boTTT).
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Hobbies: I spend a lot of time listening to and really enjoy music, although I have no musical talent myself. I'll listen to pretty much any genre, although I have yet to find much rap that I enjoy. It's pretty rare for me to be seen without some kind of music-playing-device, be it my phone or computer.
I'm a second year university student doing a double degree, so I don't really have a huge amount of spare time. When I have some, I use it to ski, rock climb, tramp (hike for you American heathens), play squash, and partake in various other outdoors activities. Other than that I do a bit of programming in my spare time, and procrastinate any possible way.
Good Questions To Ask Me: Anything about PS, from how it works to how to get involved. You can ask me anything and I'll try and direct you to the right place if I'm not the person to ask.
I should make this shorter but I suck at being concise so you can all suffer through it >:D
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